Distemper to Doctrines

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

distemper, n. (11)

    LT 1.281 25 Every Age, like every human body, has its own distemper.
    Con 1.320 4 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...a dolorous tune to beguile the distemper;...
    Ctr 6.132 23 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Ctr 6.133 13 This distemper [egotism] is the scourge of talent...
    Ctr 6.140 10 Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.
    CbW 6.245 13 ...[the priest] walked to the church without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or could heal it.
    CbW 6.254 19 Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper...
    HDC 11.78 3 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga, and died...of the distemper that prevailed in the camp.
    CL 12.137 17 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper...
    CL 12.138 18 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    Let 12.402 17 Superficialness is the real distemper.

distempers, n. (5)

    ET3 5.39 23 The London fog aggravates the distempers of the sky...
    Bhr 6.196 18 ...there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
    CbW 6.254 25 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes...the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting.
    Elo1 7.63 26 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
    OA 7.324 2 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent...

distich, n. (1)

    PPo 8.238 13 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an epigram or a distich...

distil, v. (2)

    LE 1.171 20 Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...
    ET14 5.237 3 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint, knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...

distillation, n. (1)

    AmS 1.88 7 In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.

distillations, n. (1)

    Aris 10.43 11 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.

distilled, v. (1)

    Pow 6.53 23 If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can spare the wide gardens from which it was distilled.

distils, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.196 20 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.

distinct, adj. (17)

    Nat 1.8 9 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
    MR 1.253 8 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds [laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
    Comp 2.103 8 The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a long time and so does not become distinct until after many years.
    OS 2.281 7 Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
    PPh 4.49 23 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
    SwM 4.95 6 The Koran makes a distinct class of those who are by nature good...
    ShP 4.212 12 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    ET1 5.6 24 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws, having a distinct reason for each decision;...
    Grts 8.320 23 The man...whose aim is always distinct to him;...he it is whom we seek...
    Edc1 10.136 16 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose...
    SovE 10.190 11 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.
    SovE 10.199 9 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department distinct from all other experiences...
    War 11.160 26 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand; but presently we all see it. It has now become so distinct as to be a social thought...
    War 11.161 6 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
    MAng1 12.217 14 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
    Milt1 12.275 21 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind...
    MLit 12.322 8 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and faithful acknowledgment.

distinction, n. (53)

    Nat 1.63 18 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize us of the eternal distinction between the soul and the world.
    LT 1.276 18 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    Hist 2.26 25 ...the vaunted distinction between Greek and English...seems superficial and pedantic.
    SR 2.53 23 This rule [of self-reliance]...may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.75 8 If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.
    Comp 2.123 19 The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less.
    OS 2.287 5 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Int 2.332 3 A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
    Art1 2.351 5 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty.
    Art1 2.367 24 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten.
    Mrs1 3.122 11 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    Mrs1 3.122 17 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    Mrs1 3.128 11 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...marks of distinction...
    Mrs1 3.155 4 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
    Pol1 3.203 20 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    PPh 4.50 18 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form...is destroyed, there is no distinction.
    GoW 4.274 18 [Goethe] has explained the distinction between the antique and the modern spirit and art.
    ET1 5.20 8 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics; that they make political distinction the end and not the means.
    ET7 5.118 15 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    ET7 5.121 17 Certainly [the English] knew the distinction of [Guizot's] name.
    Ctr 6.138 16 Your man of genius pays dear for his distinction.
    Ctr 6.152 9 ...among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no distinction...
    Art2 7.39 19 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    Elo1 7.79 27 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    Elo1 7.85 15 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will...lead the conversation, no matter what genius or distinction other men there present may have;...
    Elo1 7.86 23 I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
    Elo1 7.88 22 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved, but...a true distinction is drawn.
    Elo1 7.93 3 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    Suc 7.302 6 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating...to have distinction and laurels and consumption!
    SA 8.103 13 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts...
    PC 8.218 24 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne by rank or official power...
    PC 8.233 19 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society...
    Grts 8.302 15 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These we call by distinction the humanities;...
    Imtl 8.331 13 Both [men] were men of distinction and took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.
    Aris 10.35 7 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that this is...a distinction in the nature of things;...
    Aris 10.35 15 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are... built on a real distinction in the nature of my companion.
    Aris 10.49 21 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction...
    Aris 10.54 20 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    Aris 10.61 27 ...[the true man] is to know that the distinction of a royal nature is a great heart;...
    Schr 10.271 14 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in civic distinction;...
    EzRy 10.391 22 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...
    SlHr 10.440 2 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.
    Thor 10.451 10 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837, but without any literary distinction.
    GSt 10.506 12 There [George Stearns] sat in the council...with this distinction, that, if he could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    LS 11.20 26 If I understand the distinction of Christianity, the reason why it is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    EWI 11.118 11 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it. But I think experience does not warrant this favorable distinction...
    FSLN 11.230 9 That is the distinction of the gentleman, to defend the weak and redress the injured...
    Wom 11.423 21 ...when I read the list of men...of social distinction, leading men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    FRep 11.542 9 The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor.
    PLT 12.45 12 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they...make a distinction in favor of themselves from the rules they apply to the human race.
    Mem 12.94 23 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.
    ACri 12.284 16 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    MLit 12.314 11 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...

distinctions, n. (31)

    LE 1.162 14 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
    MN 1.193 17 Here, a new set of distinctions...prevail.
    Con 1.314 8 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with impatience of accidental distinctions...
    Int 2.346 12 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Pt1 3.17 10 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of low and high...disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Mrs1 3.127 13 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
    Mrs1 3.130 1 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive...
    PPh 4.49 26 Men contemplate distinctions, because they are stupefied with ignorance.
    PPh 4.55 5 If he made transcendental distinctions, [Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    PPh 4.66 1 [Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
    ShP 4.200 17 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    GoW 4.283 5 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    ET9 5.151 13 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones;...
    F 6.21 22 ...we must...show the natural bounds or essential distinctions...
    Comc 8.163 7 Wit...levels all distinctions.
    QO 8.191 2 If an author give us just distinctions...it is not so important to us whose they are.
    PC 8.212 16 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia. But geology has effaced these distinctions.
    PC 8.220 26 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    Aris 10.38 22 These distinctions [in men] exist, and they are deep...
    Aris 10.41 1 ...the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Chr2 10.107 24 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive.
    SovE 10.202 26 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!
    Prch 10.225 25 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...
    Prch 10.225 26 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    MoL 10.243 3 All the distinctions of profession and habit ended at the mines [of California].
    EWI 11.121 10 All disqualifications and distinctions of color have ceased [in Jamaica];...
    FSLC 11.189 20 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...
    FSLC 11.213 6 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.
    ChiE 11.473 25 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life, to whose distinctions it is made an indispensable passport.
    CPL 11.502 18 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
    FRep 11.529 26 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...that we can see and feel moral distinctions...in this is our hope.

distinctive, adj. (5)

    UGM 4.21 10 How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas, the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    ET4 5.53 5 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English...
    ET14 5.247 11 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    QO 8.182 17 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived.

distinctly, adv. (9)

    AmS 1.109 12 ...a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced.
    Hist 2.6 2 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    Lov1 2.184 24 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,/ That one might almost say her body thought./
    NR 3.230 15 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    OA 7.334 9 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all.
    OA 7.334 25 [John Adams] speaks very distinctly for so old a man...
    Dem1 10.10 8 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring (yes, distinctly announcing) his fate...
    LS 11.5 3 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these two opinions.
    Let 12.395 2 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

distinctness, n. (1)

    Nat 1.50 3 [Grace and expression]...abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects.

distinguish, v. (25)

    YA 1.382 19 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    SR 2.65 15 ...[thoughtless people] do not distinguish between perception and notion.
    SL 2.140 7 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    OS 2.280 27 We distinguish the announcements of the soul...by the term Revelation.
    Art1 2.367 27 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Exp 3.64 7 ...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters, [nature] does not distinguish by any favor.
    Mrs1 3.145 17 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    Nat2 3.169 14 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    PNR 4.87 21 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish poles, equator and lines of latitude...
    F 6.12 19 ...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might come to distinguish in the embryo...this is a Whig...
    Ctr 6.161 1 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have...an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted, which will distinguish his handling from that of attorneys and factors.
    Boks 7.196 3 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. In contemporaries, it is not so easy to distinguish betwixt notoriety and fame.
    Boks 7.211 1 Another class [of books] I distinguish by the term Vocabularies.
    OA 7.316 21 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect;...
    Dem1 10.14 4 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...
    Aris 10.57 13 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...
    HDC 11.42 18 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    War 11.153 1 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
    FSLC 11.180 13 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    CL 12.143 23 [In Illinois] You can distinguish from the cows a horse feeding, at the distance of five miles, with the naked eye.
    CW 12.177 13 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors of that science from the apprentices.
    Milt1 12.270 22 [Milton's] private opinions and private conscience always distinguish him.
    EurB 12.377 16 One can distinguish the Vivians [Vivian Greys] in all companies.

distinguished, adj. (17)

    MN 1.206 26 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye: only they who are deceived by the popular repetition of distinguished names.
    MoS 4.175 1 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame, not to mention many distinguished private observers,--I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    NMW 4.227 12 All distinguished engineers, savans, statists, report to [a man of Napoleon's stamp]...
    GoW 4.277 18 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET12 5.199 5 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET17 5.293 7 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found...
    ET19 5.309 23 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
    Bhr 6.185 5 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...nor distinguished power to serve you;...
    Boks 7.209 23 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
    SA 8.94 2 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy...
    PC 8.234 9 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Edc1 10.146 21 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had...become associated with distinguished scholars...
    Supl 10.170 16 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries...
    LLNE 10.340 22 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open. He found a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...
    EzRy 10.382 20 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...
    HDC 11.31 16 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...
    FSLN 11.242 14 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...

distinguished, v. (22)

    SL 2.158 13 A fop may sit in any chair of the world nor be distinguished for his hour from Homer and Washington;...
    Mrs1 3.131 4 The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris by the purity of their tournure.
    PPh 4.50 13 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    ShP 4.189 1 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    ShP 4.205 20 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers.
    GoW 4.283 8 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    ET4 5.66 15 Both branches of the Scandinavian race are distinguished for beauty.
    ET14 5.246 22 Bulwer...is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...
    ET17 5.296 8 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    SA 8.95 21 A right speech is not well to be distinguished from action.
    Elo2 8.115 24 [The orator's] speech is not to be distinguished from action.
    PC 8.226 10 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges...is whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
    Dem1 10.15 20 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    LLNE 10.338 24 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times.
    MMEm 10.398 16 [Lucy Percy] converses with those who are most distinguished for their conversational powers.
    SlHr 10.444 23 Mr. Hoar was distinguished in his profession by the grasp of his mind...
    FSLN 11.221 3 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
    EdAd 11.392 1 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has distinguished the Religious Ages?
    FRep 11.514 27 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society. And these are distinguished...by the motive.
    PLT 12.25 21 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    Pray 12.354 13 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
    Trag 12.417 4 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...

distinguishes, v. (17)

    Nat 1.4 26 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Nat 1.8 12 It is this [integrity of impression] which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter from the tree of the poet.
    LT 1.282 14 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...which distinguishes the period.
    NMW 4.249 15 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty...
    GoW 4.280 18 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...
    Art2 7.39 5 The Will distinguishes [Art] as spiritual action.
    WD 7.169 11 In solitude and in the country, what dignity distinguishes the holy time!
    WD 7.176 21 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has...
    Cour 7.271 16 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown.
    QO 8.195 27 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...
    PC 8.233 24 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
    PPo 8.238 27 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.
    Aris 10.61 25 Effectual service in his own legitimate fashion distinguishes the true man.
    Supl 10.177 7 ...[the religion of the Arab] distinguishes only two days in each man's history, the day of his lot, and the day of judgment.
    LLNE 10.334 27 There was that finish about this person [Everett]...which distinguishes every piece of genius from the works of talent...
    War 11.167 27 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive war as just.
    MLit 12.326 7 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...

distinguishing, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.68 12 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    EdAd 11.387 12 ...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.

distinguishing, v. (3)

    ET7 5.118 22 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French...
    Ctr 6.152 6 ...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
    Bost 12.188 26 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...

distort, v. (1)

    Int 2.347 9 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...

distorted, v. (2)

    Int 2.337 6 A child knows if an arm or a leg be distorted in a picture;...
    Int 2.339 6 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...

distorting, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.75 25 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are...
    PLT 12.22 17 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature...we feel as if looking at our bone and flesh through coloring and distorting glasses.

distorting, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.230 18 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature, distorting our modes of living...

distortion, n. (2)

    DSA 1.129 5 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
    ShP 4.213 21 ...[Shakespeare] could paint...the tragic and the comic... without any distortion or favor.

distortions, n. (1)

    MLit 12.317 23 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...

distract, v. (2)

    Ill 6.325 23 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
    WD 7.174 2 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.

distracted, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.263 11 I figure [sickness] as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom...
    OA 7.332 23 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life.

distracted, v. (1)

    PI 8.37 18 ...let others be distracted with cares, [the poet] is exempt.

distracting, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.236 4 ...let [a man] likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    GoW 4.289 13 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries and the distracting variety of claims, taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.

distracting, v. (2)

    GoW 4.271 7 We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things, which is distracting.
    EPro 11.324 1 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...

distraction, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.154 23 ...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason...

distractions, n. (2)

    Exp 3.70 23 Bear with these distractions...
    Pow 6.74 8 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...

distracts, v. (1)

    LS 11.17 25 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed and which distracts the mind of the worshipper.

distress, n. (10)

    Con 1.306 6 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.
    Con 1.319 12 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress...
    Mrs1 3.152 23 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    ET6 5.113 19 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    Edc1 10.152 22 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted to adopt violent means...
    HDC 11.55 14 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress...
    HDC 11.57 11 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...
    HDC 11.80 6 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of...the excess of public expenditure. They may be pardoned, under such distress, for the mistakes of an extreme frugality.
    HDC 11.81 2 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    EPro 11.321 21 In the light of this event [the Emancipation Proclamation] the public distress begins to be removed.

distressed, v. (4)

    Civ 7.20 16 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    Elo2 8.127 18 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed...
    Chr2 10.120 20 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.
    Mem 12.96 5 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed, until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.

distressing, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.248 21 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities...of distressing invalids...

distribute, v. (7)

    Nat 1.16 11 ...we may distribute the aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner.
    Con 1.320 24 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself, and new distribute the land.
    ET4 5.52 15 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery, to distribute acids at one pole and alkalies at the other.
    Boks 7.214 5 ...books that...distribute things...after the laws of right reason... put us on our feet again...
    PPo 8.237 22 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts...
    SovE 10.193 19 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed...
    CPL 11.502 7 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation.

distributed, v. (14)

    AmS 1.83 11 ...this fountain of power, has been so distributed to multitudes...that it is spilled into drops...
    Prd1 2.225 10 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties...
    UGM 4.5 8 ...our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed.
    PPh 4.46 4 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    Bty 6.299 8 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...the hair unequally distributed, etc.
    Suc 7.291 24 ...[every man] is to dare...not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. To do otherwise is to neutralize all those extraordinary special talents distributed among men.
    Aris 10.46 23 ...the constitution of things has distributed a new quality or talent to each mind...
    SovE 10.193 20 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed...
    LLNE 10.360 1 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was distributed in orderly committees to the men and women.
    EWI 11.113 19 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners...
    FSLN 11.223 7 ...[Webster's] head distributed things in their right places...
    PLT 12.35 8 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...always whole, never distributed...
    CL 12.138 27 [Linnaeus]...distributed the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
    Trag 12.410 18 [Grief] is so distributed as not to destroy.

distributes, v. (13)

    LE 1.158 4 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.
    MR 1.233 4 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats.
    MR 1.255 25 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which distributes the motion equably over all the wheels...
    NR 3.236 13 What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section.
    SwM 4.142 18 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men...and with nonchalance and the air of a referee, distributes souls.
    CbW 6.264 17 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not despond...
    PI 8.24 12 [The intellect] compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts [surface facts] into its own sphere.
    MoL 10.252 15 Thought...distributes society;...
    MoL 10.252 16 AThought...distributes the work of the world;...
    Schr 10.287 2 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron, who distributes sun and shade after immutable laws.
    PLT 12.29 25 Every man is a new method and distributes things anew.
    II 12.80 18 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. The whole world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle, which distributes men.
    Mem 12.96 23 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men...

distributing, v. (1)

    SMC 11.353 16 War civilizes, rearranges the population, distributing by ideas...

distribution, n. (19)

    AmS 1.84 4 In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect.
    MN 1.199 14 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution.
    MN 1.210 16 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but...was God in distribution...
    Prd1 2.224 14 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    NR 3.236 13 What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section.
    NR 3.238 9 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    PPh 4.51 18 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...power; the other distribution...
    SwM 4.142 10 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is...an evangelical picnic, or French distribution of prizes to virtuous peasants.
    GoW 4.273 18 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    ET13 5.217 10 The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
    Ill 6.319 19 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    Art2 7.45 21 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the prescribed distribution of parts of a theatre...
    QO 8.202 1 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought. It implies Will, or original force, for their right distribution and expression.
    Schr 10.276 27 ...I delight to see the Godhead in distribution;...
    HDC 11.41 1 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    SMC 11.374 24 Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the names of the dead. There is something partial in this distribution of honor.
    SHC 11.433 10 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games of education; the distribution of school prizes;...
    PLT 12.3 17 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
    II 12.66 27 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...

distributor, n. (2)

    PPh 4.47 17 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
    Imtl 8.325 21 [The Greek] looked at death only as the distributor of imperishable glory.

district, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.87 13 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Bost 12.196 8 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.

district, n. (18)

    Nat 1.57 15 ...[man] is transported out of the district of change.
    NR 3.238 1 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...
    UGM 4.9 4 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature...
    PNR 4.86 21 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography...
    ShP 4.210 1 What office, or function, or district of man's work, has [Shakespeare] not remembered?
    ET4 5.52 25 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    Pow 6.57 17 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Wth 6.108 19 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    Wsp 6.216 20 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
    Elo1 7.76 25 You are safe in your rural district...
    Edc1 10.131 9 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own, and so giving to man...the very highest property in every district and particle of the globe.
    FSLC 11.211 8 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    FSLN 11.219 26 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide...
    TPar 11.285 18 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
    RBur 11.442 12 [Burns] grew up in a rural district...
    CL 12.136 18 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    CL 12.146 14 I know a whole district...made up of wide, straggling orchards...
    CW 12.177 2 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...

districts, n. (8)

    ET4 5.53 8 As you go north into the manufacturing and agricultural districts...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET4 5.58 8 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
    ET11 5.179 1 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination. It has too a connection with the names of the towns and districts of the country.
    ET13 5.217 10 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church. Hence its strength in the agricultural districts.
    ET18 5.300 23 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...
    ET19 5.312 3 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these districts, that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    HDC 11.42 3 ...the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    ACiv 11.301 22 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...

distrust, n. (19)

    Nat 1.48 17 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man.
    MN 1.215 4 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    MR 1.232 20 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of distrust...
    MR 1.250 12 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
    MR 1.252 9 Our distrust is very expensive.
    MR 1.252 11 We make, by our distrust, the thief...
    LT 1.276 26 I think that the soul of reform;...not reliance on numbers, but, contrariwise, distrust of numbers...
    LT 1.282 5 ...our torment is...the distrust of the value of what we do...
    LT 1.282 6 ...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity...is fair and beneficent.
    SR 2.48 4 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    NER 3.283 6 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall destroy distrust by his trust...
    Wsp 6.210 18 Another scar of this skepticism is the distrust in human virtue.
    LVB 11.95 14 I will not hide from you [Van Buren], as an indication of the alarming distrust, that a letter addressed as mine is, and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
    LVB 11.95 19 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends. I, sir, will not beforehand treat you with the contumely of this distrust.
    FRO2 11.489 15 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    FRep 11.535 8 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... as the English Church...and distrust of popular election, we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    PLT 12.12 9 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    PLT 12.37 12 ...the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue;...
    PLT 12.55 12 There is in all students a distrust of truth...

distrust, v. (5)

    Nat 1.70 25 We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature.
    Exp 3.54 7 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    PC 8.234 10 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    MoL 10.256 3 I distrust all the legends of great accomplishments or performance of unprincipled men.
    FRO2 11.489 16 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.

distrusted, v. (2)

    Nat 1.58 20 [The Manichean and Plotinus] distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt.
    MAng1 12.235 12 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.

distrustful, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.174 18 We are...distrustful of health, of soundness, of pure innocence.

distrusts, v. (4)

    AmS 1.103 17 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    Con 1.299 13 ...[conservatism] distrusts nature;...
    CbW 6.252 6 No sane man at last distrusts himself.
    AgMs 12.362 6 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them, distrusts the value of his feeble praise...

disturb, v. (11)

    Exp 3.47 26 There are even few opinions, and these...do not disturb the universal necessity.
    ShP 4.199 18 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality;...
    ET8 5.136 1 [The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a compliment to disturb.
    ET11 5.178 8 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    ET11 5.197 5 All the [noble English] families are new, but the name is old, and they have made a covenant with their memories not to disturb it.
    ET14 5.232 2 A strong common sense, which it is not easy to unseat or disturb, marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET18 5.306 4 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel, with a poise impossible to disturb...
    Clbs 7.249 27 One likes in a companion a phlegm which it is a triumph to disturb...
    Cour 7.276 9 [The hideous facts in history] are not cheerful facts, but they do not disturb a healthy mind;...
    TPar 11.287 5 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.
    ACiv 11.302 11 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will...more than make good any petty and injurious profit which it may disturb.

disturbance, n. (3)

    Nat 1.10 14 ...to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
    Cour 7.267 17 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command...without any the least disturbance to his judgment or spirit.
    HDC 11.34 10 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings, but the long rains penetrate through, to their great disturbance in the night season.

disturbances, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.250 13 The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will...
    FRep 11.525 8 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people]...

disturbed, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.412 26 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet...by irregular, faltering, disturbed speech...

disturbed, v. (16)

    Nat 1.60 17 ...not at all disturbed by chasms of historical evidence, [the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    Prd1 2.228 22 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
    Pol1 3.214 24 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    PPh 4.65 13 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which, though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are still allied to their circulations;...
    SwM 4.126 24 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head; for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed.
    ET4 5.54 6 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions, though vague and losing themselves in fable. The traditions have got footing, and refused to be disturbed.
    ET8 5.138 15 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation, however disturbed, settles itself soon and easily...
    ET8 5.142 27 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    Ill 6.312 6 The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not like to have disturbed.
    Res 8.148 18 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox, and sat down very peacefully to his dinner, which was not disturbed.
    PerF 10.70 15 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    Chr2 10.102 17 Character denotes...a balance not to be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
    SovE 10.193 4 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.
    Thor 10.463 15 [Thoreau] said,-You can sleep near the railroad, and never be disturbed...
    HDC 11.62 6 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken. They never more disturbed the interior settlements...
    FRep 11.522 23 When we are most disturbed by [the American people's] rash and immoral voting, it is not malignity, but recklessness.

disturber, n. (1)

    War 11.162 14 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there, ready to punish any disturber of it.

disturbers, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.233 16 How delightful after these disturbers is the radiant, playful wit of--one whom I need not name...

disturbing, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.152 17 After dinner...ideas are disturbing, incendiary...
    Edc1 10.141 18 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...

disturbing, v. (2)

    Insp 8.290 4 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Trag 12.412 13 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty, without disturbing the seals of serenity;...

disturbs, v. (1)

    Cour 7.267 14 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...

disunion, n. (8)

    FSLC 11.206 1 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
    FSLC 11.206 15 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    AKan 11.261 26 I am glad to see that the terror at disunion and anarchy is disappearing.
    ACiv 11.307 19 ...whilst Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.
    EPro 11.322 1 The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
    II 12.67 24 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...
    Trag 12.406 19 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of...disunion, fear and death.
    Trag 12.408 22 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals, and this in the particulars of disease, want, insecurity and disunion.

disunited, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.185 27 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited;...

disunited, n. (1)

    NER 3.266 9 What is the use of the concert of the false and the disunited?

disunited, v. (1)

    Nat 1.74 2 The reason why the world...lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself.

disuse, n. (6)

    MN 1.215 17 You shall love rectitude...and not the disuse of money...
    YA 1.385 20 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    SR 2.86 22 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    Chr2 10.107 10 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and aspiration.
    SMC 11.375 5 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
    Mem 12.99 13 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.

disuse, v. (4)

    Con 1.305 8 ...you are under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it;...
    Nat2 3.179 27 Geology has...taught us to disuse our dame-school measures...
    NER 3.265 19 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...
    PC 8.227 20 In our daily intercourse, we...disuse our resort to the Divine oracle.

disused, v. (4)

    ET4 5.64 11 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].
    ET14 5.243 21 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so beloved;...
    Chr2 10.107 13 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
    FSLC 11.209 21 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused;...

disusing, v. (1)

    LS 11.4 19 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.

ditch, n. (2)

    ET8 5.131 21 [The English] are good...at dying in the last ditch...
    F 6.10 23 Ask the digger in the ditch to explain Newton's laws;...

Ditch, Roxbury, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 27 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.

ditch, v. (1)

    F 6.16 26 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America, to ditch and to drudge...

ditches, n. (1)

    LT 1.260 11 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with...the Atlantic and Pacific seas for its ditches and trenches;...

ditching, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.210 4 Is it not time to do something besides ditching and draining...

ditch-water, n. (1)

    NMW 4.242 1 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.

Dittany, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 21 Plant...Dittany, Asphodel, Nepenthe...

ditties, n. (1)

    EWI 11.98 2 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./

ditty, n. (1)

    PPo 8.239 17 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.

diu, adv. (1)

    Comp 2.100 8 Res nolunt diu male administrari.

diurnal, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.282 5 ...there is diurnal and secular rest.

Divan [Hafiz], n. (3)

    PPo 8.237 4 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German, besides the Divan of Hafiz, specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    PPo 8.251 8 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better...
    PPo 8.259 8 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations, though it forms the staple of the Divan.

dive, v. (3)

    Hist 2.23 22 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself...
    ET2 5.27 1 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...
    Res 8.140 20 By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark;...

dived, v. (1)

    LT 1.284 22 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.

diver, n. (2)

    LE 1.162 12 ...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    Supl 10.177 15 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar, and rises with the price of a kingdom in his hand.

diverge, v. (2)

    Tran 1.353 3 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    Hist 2.13 10 Genius...sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.

divergence, n. (3)

    ET4 5.44 11 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
    FSLC 11.182 25 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the shallowness of leaders; the divergence of parties from their alleged grounds;...
    PLT 12.53 24 Don't fear to push these individualities to their farthest divergence.

diverging, adj. (1)

    F 6.12 16 People are born...uterine brothers with this diverging destination;...

divers, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.79 20 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET11 5.195 13 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...

divers, n. (1)

    ET5 5.91 20 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers...

diverse, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.67 10 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things, endeavoring to reduce the most diverse to one form.
    Hist 2.17 3 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    SR 2.64 12 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...
    Art1 2.357 25 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    PI 8.25 2 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.

diversion, n. (6)

    AmS 1.104 11 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...
    NER 3.268 26 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure...diversion...
    Ctr 6.147 20 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice...when there is required...some diversion or alterative to prevent stagnation.
    Elo1 7.90 23 ...tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts...of sinking them by ridicule or by diversion of the mind...are keys which the orator holds;...
    EzRy 10.385 7 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
    CPL 11.503 15 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.

diversions, n. (2)

    ET8 5.127 23 The police [in England] does not interfere with public diversions.
    Bty 6.285 20 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death; how can they enter into healthful diversions?

diversities, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.239 26 ...really and underneath their external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.

diversity, n. (5)

    Hist 2.14 12 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
    PPh 4.51 9 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    PPh 4.62 24 [Dialectic] rests on the observation of identity and diversity;...
    PPh 4.63 9 The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised under a rational unity.
    PLT 12.21 19 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...

divert, v. (5)

    ET4 5.58 24 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    Edc1 10.132 19 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert. The time we seek to kill: the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us.
    MMEm 10.407 12 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.
    II 12.70 24 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
    CInt 12.115 4 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of a rope-walk or a candle-factory...

diverted, v. (6)

    Nat2 3.191 15 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    PPh 4.74 9 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    PI 8.28 17 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. What, have his daughters brought him to this pass? But when, his attention being diverted, his mind rests from this thought, he becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    Res 8.148 21 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
    Insp 8.291 24 ...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted.
    Koss 11.398 13 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet...a man so truly in love with the greatest future, that he cannot be diverted to any less.

dives, v. (3)

    AmS 1.103 23 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
    Supl 10.177 15 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar, and rises with the price of a kingdom in his hand.
    Wom 11.412 4 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./

divest, v. (4)

    Nat 1.20 6 [Man] may divest himself of [nature];...
    NR 3.231 10 Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life and divest it of poetry.
    SwM 4.143 10 Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud.
    GoW 4.283 1 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.

divested, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.250 2 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is, when divested of its pure Latinity, the worst of [Milton's] works.

divide, v. (21)

    LT 1.268 7 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    LT 1.274 14 Religion was not invited...to make or divide an estate...
    Con 1.295 1 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old...
    Chr1 3.107 17 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Mrs1 3.149 26 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will; let him yield or divide the sceptre at the door of the house.
    Nat2 3.181 12 Space exists to divide creatures;...
    Pol1 3.205 12 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly, divide and subdivide it;...it will always weigh a pound;...
    PPh 4.47 22 He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.
    PPh 4.69 2 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    ShP 4.211 13 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...
    ET5 5.99 27 The difference of rank [in England] does not divide the national heart.
    Wth 6.99 12 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    CbW 6.249 10 I wish not to concede anything to [masses], but to tame, drill, divide and break them up...
    DL 7.116 20 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
    Boks 7.220 18 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Aris 10.57 11 Let [a true aristocrat] not divide his homage...
    MMEm 10.422 1 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
    HDC 11.55 5 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    ACiv 11.308 14 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done: it would divide the North.
    Bost 12.211 1 The elder President Adams has to divide voices of fame with the younger President Adams.
    MAng1 12.218 19 In relation to this element of Beauty, the minds of men divide themselves into two classes.

divided, adj. (4)

    AmS 1.83 3 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals...
    SR 2.48 3 That divided and rebel mind...[children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    War 11.153 18 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...
    EPro 11.323 9 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...

divided, v. (24)

    Nat 1.17 22 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes...
    AmS 1.82 19 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    AmS 1.82 21 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into fingers...
    LE 1.158 22 ...over [the scholar] streams Time, scarcely divided into months and years.
    Tran 1.329 13 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...
    Exp 3.78 1 Life will be imaged, but cannot be divided nor doubled.
    MoS 4.157 25 All society is divided in opinion on the subject of the State.
    ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET4 5.72 24 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse.
    ET5 5.75 4 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...with German truth and adhesiveness. The Dane came and divided with him.
    ET16 5.286 5 ...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be divided by a screen.
    Art2 7.56 19 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
    Plu 10.312 17 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]: God divided man into men, that they might help each other;...
    HDC 11.41 3 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    HDC 11.41 7 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...
    HDC 11.41 9 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals...
    HDC 11.42 2 ...the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.54 15 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided;...
    HDC 11.66 7 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738. Soon after his ordination, the town seems to have been divided by ecclesiastical discords.
    EWI 11.113 17 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling, to be divided into nineteen shares for the nineteen colonies...
    SHC 11.433 1 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.
    II 12.81 14 ...the races of men rise out of the ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight for they know not what.
    MAng1 12.233 22 As from the fire, heat cannot be divided, no more can beauty from the eternal.
    EurB 12.368 7 ...Wordsworth...made no reserves or stipulations; man and writer were not to be divided.

dividend, n. (2)

    Con 1.325 20 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    YA 1.373 9 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist, reserving all profits to the community, without dividend to individuals.

dividends, n. (1)

    Wth 6.97 10 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot...they seem to steal their own dividends.

divides, v. (12)

    Nat 1.36 13 The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures...
    LT 1.268 23 ...the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    Fdsp 2.210 17 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook?
    Pol1 3.208 11 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties, into which each State divides itself, of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.
    NMW 4.256 10 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    ET10 5.160 27 Whitworth divides a bar to a millionth of an inch.
    F 6.44 7 The races of men rise out of the ground...and divides into parties...
    CbW 6.248 16 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
    Art2 7.39 22 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty, and hence Art divides itself into the Useful and the Fine Arts.
    Dem1 10.3 8 The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth the empire of our lives.
    Chr2 10.116 15 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    LLNE 10.326 17 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body...

dividing, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 22 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...

dividing, v. (5)

    Comp 2.104 23 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted.
    Pow 6.79 21 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
    PerF 10.74 16 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...
    Edc1 10.134 5 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...
    Koss 11.399 10 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...dividing populations where you go...

dividual, n. (1)

    LT 1.273 26 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable...

divination, n. (14)

    ET14 5.253 25 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    Bhr 6.172 9 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey, and what divination is required in us for the reading of this fine telegraph,--we see what range the subject has...
    Bty 6.285 25 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they divination...which we demand in man...
    DL 7.108 12 ...we are always hovering round this better divination.
    PC 8.227 11 The dreams of the night supplement by their divination the imperfect experiments of the day.
    Insp 8.282 13 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Dem1 10.7 27 ...we...owe to dreams a kind of divination and wisdom.
    Dem1 10.21 12 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror; so the divination of contingent events...
    Dem1 10.28 8 The voice of divination resounds everywhere...
    SovE 10.212 21 ...what divination or insight belongs to [ethical truth]!
    Prch 10.225 4 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    Wom 11.414 3 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    PLT 12.20 25 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    PLT 12.62 9 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.

divinations, n. (1)

    PC 8.222 5 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the auguries or divinations of the human mind.

divine, adj. (180)

    Nat 1.13 16 ...thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.
    Nat 1.19 23 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    Nat 1.23 5 Nothing divine dies.
    Nat 1.57 8 ...no man touches these divine natures [ideas], without becoming, in some degree, himself divine.
    Nat 1.57 9 ...no man touches these divine natures [ideas], without becoming, in some degree, himself divine.
    Nat 1.62 25 ...the world is a divine dream...
    Nat 1.65 5 [The world] is...the present expositor of the divine mind.
    AmS 1.88 23 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man...
    AmS 1.88 24 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also.
    AmS 1.105 11 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament flows before him...
    DSA 1.121 13 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    DSA 1.125 11 This sentiment [of virtue] is divine and deifying.
    DSA 1.126 17 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses.
    DSA 1.127 12 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    DSA 1.127 18 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons...
    DSA 1.129 2 [Jesus] said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, I am divine.
    DSA 1.132 8 The divine bards are the friends of my virtue...
    DSA 1.145 17 ...men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    DSA 1.146 15 ...when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    LE 1.158 19 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things attend [the scholar's] steps.
    LE 1.174 15 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those private, sincere, divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    LE 1.175 25 Digest and correct the past experience; and blend it with the new and divine life.
    MN 1.197 1 In the divine order, intellect is primary;...
    MN 1.210 12 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...
    MN 1.211 7 [A poet] was supposed to be the mouth of a divine wisdom.
    MN 1.211 25 There is no office or function of man but is rightly discharged by this divine method...
    MN 1.214 1 Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things...
    MN 1.223 13 We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine.
    MR 1.227 17 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    MR 1.256 19 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications.
    Tran 1.334 18 Everything divine shares the self-existence of Deity.
    Tran 1.337 13 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords.
    Tran 1.353 16 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
    Hist 2.12 22 To the poet...all men [are] divine.
    Hist 2.17 22 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
    Hist 2.27 25 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
    SR 2.47 1 We...are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
    SR 2.47 13 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...
    SR 2.65 24 The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
    SR 2.66 5 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away...
    SR 2.71 9 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    Comp 2.96 7 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Comp 2.108 7 This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine.
    Comp 2.125 15 ...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
    SL 2.138 27 ...by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.
    SL 2.155 25 By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.
    SL 2.158 10 What has he done? is the divine question which searches men...
    SL 2.160 14 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
    Lov1 2.169 10 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period...
    Lov1 2.182 24 ...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty... the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Lov1 2.182 25 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Fdsp 2.194 18 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends]...
    Fdsp 2.196 13 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation.
    Fdsp 2.201 9 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer, and nothing is so much divine.
    Prd1 2.225 17 Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.
    Prd1 2.231 21 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called, and not by divine men.
    Prd1 2.232 21 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    OS 2.273 10 See how the deep divine thought reduces centuries and millenniums...
    OS 2.275 2 With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite...
    OS 2.276 17 One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the spirit in a form...
    OS 2.281 19 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    OS 2.297 10 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity.
    Cir 2.306 12 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and... if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise.
    Cir 2.317 7 It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
    Cir 2.320 15 I can know that truth is divine and helpful;...
    Int 2.333 1 Men say, Where did [the writer] get this? and think there was something divine in his life.
    Art1 2.368 14 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use the railroad...
    Pt1 3.2 2 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./
    Pt1 3.8 18 Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy.
    Pt1 3.18 19 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
    Pt1 3.26 15 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
    Pt1 3.27 14 As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.
    Exp 3.82 11 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous. This is a divine answer, and leaves no appeal...
    Exp 3.82 23 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity. The god is surcharged with his divine destiny.
    Chr1 3.107 26 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    Chr1 3.108 1 Divine persons are character born...
    Chr1 3.108 6 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.
    Chr1 3.112 14 Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity;...
    Chr1 3.112 22 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus, and as they can instal themselves by seniority divine.
    Chr1 3.113 12 A divine person is the prophecy of the mind;...
    Chr1 3.113 21 ...we have never seen a man: that divine form we do not yet know...
    Nat2 3.170 20 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Nat2 3.175 6 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses.
    Nat2 3.178 22 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    Nat2 3.196 8 The divine circulations never rest nor linger.
    Pol1 3.210 13 ...[the spirit of our American radicalism] has no ulterior and divine ends...
    NR 3.236 3 ...the divine man does not respect [persons];...
    NR 3.243 18 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NER 3.254 24 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act...to flow from the whole spirit and faith of him; for then that taking will have a giving as free and divine;...
    NER 3.268 4 We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man...
    NER 3.284 20 ...let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
    PPh 4.64 6 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
    PPh 4.70 16 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift.
    SwM 4.110 16 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...and carrying up the semblance into divine forms,--delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.129 5 So far from there being anything divine in the low and proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    SwM 4.138 20 ...the divine effort is never relaxed;...
    MoS 4.177 1 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...
    MoS 4.182 12 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man, of the divine Providence and of the immortality of the soul, [the spiritualist's] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a certain parsimony.
    ShP 4.197 14 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./
    ET5 5.76 21 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons...
    ET13 5.231 6 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    ET14 5.256 25 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources...
    ET18 5.304 12 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development,--a divine cripple like Vulcan;...
    ET18 5.305 21 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
    F 6.31 20 The divine order does not stop where [men's] sight stops.
    Ctr 6.156 9 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...that [nature's] favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought.
    Ctr 6.160 23 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Bhr 6.187 20 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
    Bhr 6.197 2 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company, respecting the divine communications out of which all must be presumed to have newly come.
    Wsp 6.199 23 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate' s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
    Wsp 6.208 19 There is faith...in public opinion, but not in divine causes.
    Wsp 6.226 16 ...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life... walk with him, step for step...
    Bty 6.282 11 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...
    Bty 6.305 5 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine...
    DL 7.125 23 There are no divine persons with us...
    DL 7.125 24 ...the multitude do not hasten to be divine.
    DL 7.126 14 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building...
    WD 7.168 9 The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans.
    Suc 7.296 16 In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have been translators of the happy present, and every man and woman divine possibilities.
    Suc 7.311 6 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action...that is the work of divine men.
    PI 8.8 24 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.21 4 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that, with divine flowings, through remotest things;...
    PI 8.35 11 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.40 2 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation]...is...at all points divine.
    PI 8.43 4 All the parts and forms of Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties...
    QO 8.204 17 The divine gift is ever the instant life...
    Insp 8.280 10 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
    Insp 8.283 8 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
    Imtl 8.340 16 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
    Dem1 10.14 5 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as...vehicles of the divine foresight...
    PerF 10.84 3 ...if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    PerF 10.86 19 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us...
    Chr2 10.114 27 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment]...the history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any place or time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
    SovE 10.213 4 Once men thought Spirit divine, and Matter diabolic;...
    Prch 10.238 6 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
    MoL 10.249 14 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...
    Plu 10.311 14 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things;...
    Plu 10.314 7 [Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately into a better and more divine state.
    LLNE 10.336 8 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven,-the scaffold of the divine vengeance Saurin called it...
    MMEm 10.408 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any system of philosophy, divine or human...
    MMEm 10.416 25 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.428 1 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;...
    Carl 10.494 22 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle], previous, it would seem, to all inquiry whether the force be divine or diabolic.
    LS 11.21 1 ...the reason why [Christianity] is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    HDC 11.77 9 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    FSLC 11.191 6 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law or else we must offend both the natural and divine.
    FSLN 11.236 9 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...
    FSLN 11.244 25 ...I hope we...have come to a belief that there is a divine Providence in the world...
    HCom 11.340 11 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    EdAd 11.382 21 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    SHC 11.430 20 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    Scot 11.462 4 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...
    FRep 11.509 2 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    PLT 12.19 13 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.
    PLT 12.59 16 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.
    PLT 12.59 22 Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man.
    PLT 12.60 11 So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
    PLT 12.63 1 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is divine...
    PLT 12.63 2 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is...the continuation of the divine effort.
    II 12.71 6 The divine energy never rests or repeats itself...
    II 12.77 3 We call genius...divine;...
    Mem 12.91 7 Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms;...
    Mem 12.108 18 The divine gift is not the old but the new.
    Mem 12.108 19 The divine is the instant life that receives and uses...
    CInt 12.121 21 With this divine oracle [thought], we somehow do not get instructed.
    CW 12.169 9 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    Bost 12.193 1 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise;...
    Bost 12.205 8 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...
    MAng1 12.234 4 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
    MAng1 12.240 12 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.
    MAng1 12.240 17 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an image of the divine beauty...
    MAng1 12.240 19 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world...not to provoke but to purify the sensual into an intellectual and divine love.
    Milt1 12.266 21 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    Milt1 12.268 18 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
    Milt1 12.274 15 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./ And the soul of this divine creature is excellent as his form.
    MLit 12.332 7 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree into the common history of genius.
    EurB 12.374 20 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's false key...
    Let 12.401 22 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...
    Trag 12.413 17 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...

Divine, adj. (10)

    OS 2.281 4 These [announcements of the soul] are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind.
    Art2 7.53 10 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind...
    PI 8.35 2 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity, as if the Divine creative energy had fainted in his own century.
    PI 8.72 11 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    PC 8.227 20 In our daily intercourse, we...disuse our resort to the Divine oracle.
    SovE 10.193 4 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.
    SovE 10.199 27 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind...
    EzRy 10.385 5 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience? Do I exercise the faith in the Divine care and protection which I ought to do?
    EWI 11.110 8 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, declaring that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law as the slave-trade.
    FSLC 11.185 24 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.

Divine Art, n. (1)

    Art2 7.39 15 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.

Divine Artificer, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.130 14 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.

Divine Being, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.127 21 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.

Divine Judgment, Drama of t (1)

    LLNE 10.336 6 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...

Divine Justice, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 2 The delay of the Divine Justice-this was the meaning and soul of the Greek Tragedy;...

Divine Mind, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.99 6 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Chr2 10.99 22 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...

divine, n. (13)

    MN 1.209 10 ...the tools run away with the workman, the human with the divine.
    LT 1.273 18 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be.
    NER 3.259 22 If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
    PPh 4.67 24 [Plato] said, Culture; he said, Nature; and he failed not to add, There is also the divine.
    Bty 6.305 26 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise,--under calm and precise outline the immeasurable and divine;...
    QO 8.201 14 The divine resides in the new.
    QO 8.201 14 The divine never quotes, but is, and creates.
    Dem1 10.21 21 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better. It is the height of the animal; below the region of the divine.
    Supl 10.167 2 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    Supl 10.171 21 Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
    Wom 11.416 8 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician. He was a jurist, a poet, a divine.
    Milt1 12.252 9 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.
    ACri 12.287 24 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.

Divine, n. (3)

    MN 1.220 1 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    Art1 2.352 26 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future beholders...the Divine.
    EdAd 11.392 8 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.

Divine Nature, n. (1)

    PC 8.230 14 The Divine Nature carries on its administration by good men.

Divine Person, n. (1)

    Wom 11.413 8 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./ This is the Divine Person whom Dante and Milton saw in vision.

Divine Power and Manifestat (1)

    WD 7.167 5 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...importing that the Day is the Divine Power and Manifestation...

Divine Power, n. (1)

    Suc 7.306 23 Everything lasting and fit for men the Divine Power has marked with this stamp [of beauty].

Divine Presence, n. [Divine,] (2)

    ET13 5.220 6 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence...
    FRO1 11.479 15 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that exalts...

Divine Providence, n. (16)

    F 6.28 10 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.
    Wsp 6.202 2 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    Imtl 8.330 3 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Edc1 10.135 14 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence.
    SovE 10.201 11 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... He interrupts for the moment your peaceful trust in the Divine Providence.
    Plu 10.313 21 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
    ACiv 11.299 25 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    EPro 11.317 15 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    HCom 11.341 8 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    HCom 11.342 1 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    HCom 11.342 12 The proof that war...is a marked benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
    SMC 11.354 19 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    FRep 11.544 2 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    CL 12.144 24 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    Let 12.397 1 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship. But herein we are never quite forsaken by the Divine Providence.
    Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...

Divine Soul, n. (1)

    AmS 1.115 27 ...each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Divine Spirit, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.100 16 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born... which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...

divine, v. (8)

    Tran 1.344 9 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset. If you cannot divine it, you would not understand what I say.
    Pt1 3.30 14 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
    UGM 4.14 27 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can...
    SwM 4.95 20 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    F 6.25 26 ...we prophesy and divine.
    Bty 6.297 23 We all know this magic [of beautiful women] very well, or can divine it.
    Res 8.141 2 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    PPo 8.256 13 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./ Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;/ I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net./

Divine Wisdom, n. (1)

    MLit 12.333 18 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?

divined, v. (4)

    Hist 2.40 9 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
    Nat2 3.183 19 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
    F 6.45 26 This correlation really existing can be divined.
    MLit 12.333 20 All that in our sovereign moments each of us has divined of the powers of thought...this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.

divinely, adv. (1)

    SL 2.142 25 We...do not perceive that any thing man can do may be divinely done.

divineness, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.17 4 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...

diviner, adj. (3)

    NER 3.271 8 The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holydays of a diviner presence.
    ET14 5.238 26 ...[Bacon] drinks of a diviner stream, and marks the influx of idealism into England.
    Schr 10.268 27 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.

diviner, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.134 12 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...prophet, diviner,-society has need of all these.
    LLNE 10.362 17 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...

divines, n. (5)

    SR 2.57 19 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by...divines.
    Hsm1 2.251 4 ...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed, and is not open to the censure of philosophers or divines.
    QO 8.182 17 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    Prch 10.228 22 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    MoL 10.241 5 You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers, divines;...

divines, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.147 1 The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats]. It divines afar off their coming.

Diving, in the Lake..., Lad (1)

    QO 8.186 23 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake and Rising in the Cave...

diving, v. (5)

    LE 1.176 14 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...so diving, bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    PPh 4.48 11 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause, diving still into the profound...
    PPh 4.76 1 Mounting into heaven, diving into the pit...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    Pow 6.69 10 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war, diving into Maelstroms;...
    Thor 10.470 22 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird...which always, when he saw it, was in the act of diving down into a tree or bush...

diving-bell, n. (2)

    Aris 10.45 4 If we see tools in a magazine, as...a cider-press, a diving-bell, we can predict well enough their destination;...
    PerF 10.78 3 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory...

diving-bells, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 9 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...diving-bells...

divining, v. (1)

    LT 1.267 27 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.

divinitatis, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 26 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth, and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus divinitatis habent.

divinities, n. (5)

    LE 1.182 3 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet...
    SwM 4.135 14 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment, which carries innumerable christianities, humanities, divinities, in its bosom.
    MoS 4.181 3 [To some minds] Heaven is within heaven, and sky over sky, and they are encompassed with divinities.
    Civ 7.30 21 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote...
    WD 7.176 19 We owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and pedlers.

divinity, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.113 16 ...the education in the divinity colleges may well hesitate and vary.

Divinity, Body of, n. (1)

    Cir 2.312 19 All the argument and all the wisdom is not in...the Body of Divinity...

Divinity, Doctor of, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.107 6 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...

divinity, n. (21)

    DSA 1.142 8 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline to make it know...the divinity that speaks through it.
    MN 1.221 19 I draw from nature the lesson of an intimate divinity.
    Con 1.304 12 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages, which is a homage to the element of necessity and divinity which is in them.
    Comp 2.93 15 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men a ray of divinity...
    Cir 2.309 5 Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind.
    Pt1 3.4 19 ...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.
    Exp 3.52 27 Temperament puts all divinity to rout.
    Exp 3.57 23 Divinity is behind our failures and follies also.
    Exp 3.70 6 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity;...
    Pol1 3.217 15 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and ambition is confession of this divinity;...
    PPh 4.65 18 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    MoS 4.172 25 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
    GoW 4.270 26 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no prophet or saint, but colleges of divinity;...
    ET10 5.170 7 At present [England] does not rule her wealth. She is simply a good England, but no divinity, or wise and instructed soul.
    F 6.8 16 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
    F 6.48 1 ...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    Wsp 6.221 27 ...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God' s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
    Suc 7.303 18 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...
    PPo 8.249 17 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon...
    SovE 10.186 14 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    PLT 12.7 6 ...these questions which really interest men, how few can answer. Here are learned faculties of law and divinity, but would questions like these come into mind when I see them?

Divinity, n. (10)

    LT 1.259 2 ...the present aspects of our social state, the Laws, Divinity... have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    Con 1.303 24 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    Con 1.303 25 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    Lov1 2.183 1 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and knowledge of the Divinity...
    PPh 4.70 10 This faith in the Divinity is never out of mind, and constitutes the ground of all [Plato's] dogmas.
    Wsp 6.231 25 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    Bty 6.305 20 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...
    Chr2 10.97 15 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
    Plu 10.304 18 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl...continues her voice a thousand years through the favor of the Divinity that speaks within her.
    MMEm 10.426 1 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions...

Divinity, Regius Professor (1)

    ET12 5.199 12 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...

Divinity School, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 25 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.

divisibility, n. (1)

    Nat 1.36 12 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...its divisibility.

division, n. (13)

    MN 1.215 24 Tell me not how great your project is...a new division of labor and of land...
    MR 1.235 10 ...will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the division of labor...
    MR 1.236 6 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor...
    Tran 1.359 6 ...when every voice is raised...for a political party, or the division of an estate,-will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    OS 2.269 6 We live...in division...
    Art1 2.366 21 ...this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.
    ET10 5.167 18 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished of the mischief of the division of labor...
    ET15 5.268 1 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause. Both the council and the executive departments gain by this division.
    Civ 7.23 3 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Farm 7.137 1 The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create.
    EzRy 10.386 4 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    SMC 11.373 11 [George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division hospital...
    EurB 12.374 27 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...

divisions, n. (5)

    Nat 1.18 24 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Int 2.325 18 How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions...
    PC 8.210 9 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    LLNE 10.326 1 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics;...
    MAng1 12.220 5 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its divisions marked...

Divorce, Doctrine of... [Jo (1)

    Milt1 12.275 16 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken, and is a version of the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

divorce, n. (7)

    MN 1.221 5 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    Wsp 6.207 23 The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Cour 7.258 10 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    PI 8.66 20 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been famished and false...
    Milt1 12.272 5 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce...
    Milt1 12.272 7 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
    Milt1 12.278 8 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce;...

divorce, v. (2)

    GoW 4.267 20 ...in...actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    MLit 12.314 3 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...flattered or pardoned or enriched; what will help to marry or to divorce them...is sure of their interest; and nothing else.

divorced, v. (3)

    SwM 4.128 10 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    Bost 12.200 7 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth (always interesting, since from wealth power cannot be divorced) is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.
    Milt1 12.272 19 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition;...

divulgatory, adj. (1)

    FRO2 11.487 6 Nothing really is so self-publishing, so divulgatory, as thought.

dizened, v. (2)

    WD 7.175 23 'T is the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.
    Clbs 7.231 17 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.

dizzied, v. (1)

    MN 1.203 1 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...

dizzy, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.83 19 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    PC 8.225 13 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;...

doated, v. (1)

    NR 3.248 13 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved the centre, but doated on the superficies;...

docile, adj. (5)

    MR 1.246 2 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be serene and docile to what the mind shall speak...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    F 6.3 23 ...the boys and girls are not docile;...
    F 6.46 2 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them. Especially when a soul is quick and docile...
    EPro 11.326 15 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
    FRO2 11.487 26 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...only humble and docile before the source of the wisdom he has discovered within him.

docility, n. (6)

    DSA 1.139 25 ...this docility is a check upon the mischief from the good and devout.
    LE 1.181 20 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    SR 2.71 11 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    Pol1 3.209 4 [Party leaders] reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
    Prch 10.231 12 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day; 't is the cry and the babble of the nursery, and their only virtue, docility.
    FRep 11.539 16 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this...requires docility, sympathy, and religious receiving from higher principles;...

dock, n. (2)

    Wth 6.115 8 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
    Clbs 7.246 10 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.

Dock Square, Boston, Massa (2)

    Wth 6.122 14 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Wth 6.123 9 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road. So Dock Square yields the point, and things have their own way.

docked, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.98 15 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory, these docked men whom we behold.

docks, n. (4)

    ET3 5.42 5 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    ET5 5.94 18 [England] is too far north for the culture of the vine, but the wines of all countries are in its docks.
    Wth 6.84 16 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./
    Suc 7.285 5 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...

doctor, n. (17)

    Int 2.325 16 ...the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
    Pt1 3.8 23 [The poet] is the true and only doctor;...
    ET5 5.80 19 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson, a doctor in the schools, would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...
    Wth 6.108 6 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    Ctr 6.154 6 What is odious but...people...who send for the doctor...
    CbW 6.253 15 Good is a good doctor but Bad is sometimes a better.
    Clbs 7.239 3 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged.
    Elo2 8.127 16 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion.
    Elo2 8.127 18 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed...
    Elo2 8.127 25 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation to men...
    QO 8.181 10 Albert, the wonderful doctor, St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura, the seraphic doctor, Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    Edc1 10.149 12 See how far a young doctor will ride or walk to witness a new surgical operation.
    Koss 11.400 12 You [Kossuth] may well sit a doctor in the college of liberty.
    Mem 12.106 22 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory.
    CL 12.154 23 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care. The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet.

Doctor, n. (11)

    Hist 2.29 19 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    Hsm1 2.248 15 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian.
    ET1 5.21 6 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing, who had recently visited him (laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat).
    Comc 8.167 23 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired.
    EzRy 10.386 18 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer;...
    EzRy 10.386 19 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor suddenly remembering the season, rejected his offer with some humor...
    EzRy 10.387 22 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately...
    EzRy 10.388 19 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    EzRy 10.388 21 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.
    EzRy 10.390 2 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc. Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
    EzRy 10.392 10 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation at the time when the Doctor was perparing to go to Baltimore and Washington, that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.

Doctor of Divinity, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.107 6 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...

Doctor of Music, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.363 19 There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight]...

doctoral, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.274 26 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us; and they have some doctoral skill.

doctors, n. (16)

    LE 1.159 25 Say to such doctors, We are thankful to you, as we are to history...
    Exp 3.54 4 Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation to the shape of heads? When I come to that, the doctors shall buy me for a cent.
    Exp 3.67 22 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists, and doctors...
    Mrs1 3.146 16 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
    SwM 4.133 21 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat; kings, counsellors, cavaliers, doctors...
    F 6.9 16 ...ask the doctors, ask Quetelet if temperaments decide nothing?
    Bty 6.285 21 ...the doctors...are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
    Clbs 7.238 15 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...the doctors in the academy...
    Suc 7.302 19 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men...
    PI 8.11 1 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors.
    Chr2 10.113 13 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
    MoL 10.243 7 ...doctors of medicine turned teamsters [in California];...
    Thor 10.472 25 ...as [Thoreau] discovered everywhere among doctors some leaning of courtesy, it discredited them.
    Wom 11.416 12 Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing of the doctors.
    CW 12.172 4 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers,- not doctors of laws but doctors of land...
    CW 12.172 5 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers,- not doctors of laws but doctors of land...

Doctor's, n. (3)

    EzRy 10.388 26 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us. With the Doctor's views it was a matter of religion to say thus much.
    EzRy 10.390 20 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    EzRy 10.395 14 My classmate at Cambridge...told me from Governor Gore, who was the Doctor's classmate, that in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.

doctrinaire, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.347 14 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of...Prince Metternich, with whom the persevering doctrinaire had obtained interviews;...
    Bost 12.203 8 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire...

doctrinaires, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.342 15 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...

Doctrine, Christian, Of the (1)

    Milt1 12.247 2 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.

doctrine, n. (142)

    Nat 1.35 7 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side. This doctrine is abstruse...
    Nat 1.41 18 ...[commodity] is to the mind an education in the doctrine of Use...
    AmS 1.82 23 The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime;...
    AmS 1.92 10 But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    AmS 1.106 9 ...I have already shown the ground of my hope, in adverting to the doctrine that man is one.
    DSA 1.127 12 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    DSA 1.127 17 ...because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of, the doctrine of it suffers this perversion...
    DSA 1.127 20 The doctrine of inspiration is lost;...
    DSA 1.127 21 ...the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
    DSA 1.127 22 ...the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
    DSA 1.129 5 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
    DSA 1.129 7 There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
    DSA 1.130 14 ...[Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...
    DSA 1.132 1 The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
    DSA 1.138 8 Not one fact in all his experience had [the preacher] yet imported into his doctrine.
    LE 1.158 3 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
    LE 1.158 4 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.
    MN 1.216 11 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    MN 1.222 26 The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of joy and exultation.
    MR 1.228 14 ...the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.
    MR 1.236 11 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    MR 1.240 18 I do not wish to overstate this doctrine of labor...
    MR 1.240 26 ...the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...
    LT 1.286 7 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly, the doctrine, namely, of the indwelling of the Creator in man.
    Con 1.319 7 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction; and this omission makes his whole doctrine false.
    Tran 1.335 22 The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine.
    Tran 1.337 1 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    Tran 1.338 6 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    Hist 2.31 1 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    SR 2.51 22 The doctrine of hatred must be preached...
    SR 2.51 24 The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love...
    SR 2.75 4 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself...
    Comp 2.93 6 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy...
    Comp 2.93 21 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.94 6 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    Comp 2.94 13 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.
    Comp 2.95 26 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience...
    Comp 2.101 26 The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
    Comp 2.107 16 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis...
    Comp 2.115 8 ...the doctrine that every thing has its price...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Comp 2.120 16 ...the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.
    SL 2.146 14 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.
    SL 2.146 22 Plato had a secret doctrine, had he?
    Lov1 2.183 4 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new.
    OS 2.284 3 It was left to [Christ's] disciples...to teach the immortality of the soul as a doctrine...
    OS 2.284 4 The moment the doctrine of the immortality [of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
    Int 2.343 21 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Pt1 3.3 15 It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.3 18 There is no doctrine of forms in our philosophy.
    Exp 3.75 9 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Nat2 3.196 5 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NR 3.247 12 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.255 14 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade...
    NER 3.279 16 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    PPh 4.52 13 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...
    PPh 4.66 1 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste.
    PNR 4.83 13 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...doctrine of assimilation;...
    PNR 4.83 14 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...doctrine of reminiscence;...
    PNR 4.83 17 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, what comes from God to us, returns from us to God...
    PNR 4.86 9 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication.
    SwM 4.105 17 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.
    SwM 4.105 18 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.
    SwM 4.105 19 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.
    SwM 4.106 15 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.113 13 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland;...
    SwM 4.115 26 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...
    SwM 4.117 13 ...[Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration...
    MoS 4.177 23 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
    NMW 4.254 11 [Napoleon's] star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French.
    NMW 4.254 20 [Napoleon's] doctrine of immortality is simply fame.
    ET1 5.11 10 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET1 5.11 10 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET1 5.11 12 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET1 5.12 5 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...
    ET4 5.46 20 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.49 15 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    ET13 5.224 5 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England.
    ET14 5.241 25 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ET14 5.242 18 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...
    Pow 6.66 16 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...
    Wth 6.91 27 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning; and this doctrine of the snake will come also from the elect sons of light;...
    Wth 6.124 24 It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is a being of degrees;...
    Ctr 6.159 9 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Wsp 6.202 17 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate...or trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.
    Wsp 6.215 26 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!...
    Wsp 6.237 11 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...
    Wsp 6.239 15 [Immortality] is a doctrine too great to rest on any legend...
    Elo1 7.61 1 It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing.
    WD 7.173 6 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not...
    OA 7.336 3 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced;...
    PI 8.14 24 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    PI 8.74 8 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    Res 8.150 1 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application...
    Comc 8.166 3 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    Insp 8.275 12 There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'T is the doctrine of faith over works.
    Insp 8.277 6 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
    Imtl 8.324 10 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...
    Imtl 8.324 20 There never was a time when the doctrine of a future life was not held.
    Imtl 8.326 12 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.
    Imtl 8.326 27 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity...
    Imtl 8.330 2 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Imtl 8.342 13 ...the one doctrine in which all religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.
    Imtl 8.344 11 The doctrine [of immortality] is not sentimental...
    Imtl 8.345 20 There is a drawback to the value of all statements of the doctrine [of immortality]...
    Imtl 8.348 2 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.
    Dem1 10.15 12 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
    PerF 10.85 14 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation...
    Chr2 10.105 18 The establishment of Christianity in the world does not rest on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane doctrine.
    Supl 10.163 1 The doctrine of temperance is one of many degrees.
    SovE 10.193 11 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it, or be pulverized by the recoil. It is a doctrine of unspeakable comfort.
    SovE 10.193 22 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret.
    SovE 10.195 6 The emphasis of that blessed doctrine [of Trust] lay in lowliness.
    Prch 10.228 13 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine...
    Plu 10.313 21 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
    LLNE 10.345 13 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door where he hoped to find hearing for his doctrine, which was, Never to give or receive money.
    LLNE 10.347 22 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    LLNE 10.348 25 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
    LLNE 10.355 4 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
    LLNE 10.356 11 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave...and defy the robber. This was Thoreau's doctrine...
    Carl 10.494 23 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature was made by God...
    LS 11.4 7 The doctrine of the Consubstantiation taught by Luther was denied by Calvin.
    LS 11.17 8 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    EWI 11.145 22 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one...
    War 11.159 26 All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation: the doctrine of the right of war still remains.
    War 11.168 12 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    War 11.169 10 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
    Koss 11.398 15 It is our republican doctrine...that the wide variety of opinions is an advantage.
    Wom 11.415 23 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg...
    ChiE 11.473 3 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in...his doctrine of Reciprocity...
    FRO1 11.480 4 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.
    FRO2 11.488 11 I object, of course, to the claim of miraculous dispensation,-certainly not to the doctrine of Christianity.
    FRO2 11.489 16 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    PLT 12.38 13 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...
    II 12.68 4 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.
    CInt 12.120 14 [Demosthenes] wins his cause honestly. His doctrine is self-reliance.
    Milt1 12.267 6 ...the following passage...indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of humility.
    Milt1 12.271 22 [Milton] taught the doctrine of unlimited toleration.
    Milt1 12.271 25 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty...
    Milt1 12.272 3 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce...
    MLit 12.331 9 [Goethe] accepts the base doctrine of Fate...
    Trag 12.408 2 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism...

Doctrine of the Life of Man (1)

    MLit 12.333 26 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.

Doctrine...of Divorce [John (1)

    Milt1 12.275 16 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken, and is a version of the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

doctrines, n. (14)

    MN 1.193 11 ...the multitude of men...give currency to desponding doctrines...
    SR 2.50 16 I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
    Comp 2.95 19 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
    SwM 4.104 18 Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates, Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.105 20 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
    MoS 4.182 11 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    GoW 4.268 3 That man seeth, who seeth that the speculative and the practical doctrines are one [say the Hindoos].
    GoW 4.281 15 There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
    Imtl 8.329 8 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...
    Imtl 8.344 23 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of conscience and experience; this is no speculation, but the most practical of doctrines.
    Chr2 10.107 23 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Prch 10.223 14 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity, since it seeks to find in every nation and creed the imperishable doctrines.
    Prch 10.232 11 ...these [day's events] are fair tests to try our doctrines by...
    LS 11.21 6 ...if miracles may be said to have been [Christianity's] evidence to the first Christians, they are not its evidence to us, but the doctrines themselves;...

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